Heiko Oberdiek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:02:54PM +0200, Philipp Stephani wrote: > > > No, the capital ß is not the uppercase version of ß. SpecialCasing.txt has > > > > # The German es-zed is special--the normal mapping is to SS. > > # Note: the titlecase should never occur in practice. It is equal to > > titlecase(uppercase(<es-zed>)) > > > > 00DF; 00DF; 0053 0073; 0053 0053; # LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S > > And it's context dependent. The German language has two > words "Maße" and "Masse" meaning different things. > The uppercase variant would be the same ("MASSE"). Therefore > also "SZ" can be used for the uppercase form of "ß": "MASZE".
anyone would think that the people who designed the german language had simply not thought of computerisation...
